OT -- Dinosaur-eating snake discovered
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7045780.ece
Worth noting since it was a Michigan guy who made the discovery. Also, there are probably some crude analogies to be made by program friends & foes respecting RichRod taking over from Carr.
As the snake is only 11ft long.
Only 11ft? That's what she said.
The Michigan guy was my prof for a Dinosaurs class I took in undergrad. I've also seen him on the Discovery channel.
That sounds either incredible or awful. Stupid liberal-arts education... any class I get to take outside my major is history, religion, English, or art. I'd kill for a class on dinosaurs.
I took one at Toledo. It was AWFUL.
Gotta love electives. It was a great class and I actually learned quite a bit. If I remember correctly, it was a shortened class for less credit. I took astronomy the next term.
Maybe the class isn't very useful in the business world, but it's great for the random Jeopardy question!
"Worth noting since it was a Michigan guy who made the discovery" ok so not OT then?
The University Record article
Their slideshow
An international paleontological team led by the University of Michigan's Jeff Wilson and the Geological Survey of India's Dhananjay Mohabey will publish their discovery online March 2 in the open-access journal PLoS Biology.The actual published research article
I was a bit underwhelmed by this discovery. 11ft snake? I expected a dinosaur eating snake to be massive (40ft +). There were ancient anacondas that were larger then that. Snooze
this is why i come to this blog
is the man. I took his class my freshman year (probably the same as super unknown). Really bright, passionate, and funny guy. Had the pleasure of grabbing a few drinks with him at Dominic's my senior year. Glad to see him have success.
Insert obligatory snake joke here...
What about U-M researchers involved with the discovery of a new dinosaur?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uom-ndr030110.php
...Dr. James Wilson.
The research article.